MEXICO CITY (Reuters) – Mexico’s President-elect Claudia Sheinbaum said on Thursday that judges in the country should be elected, echoing her agreement with a controversial judicial reform proposed by outgoing President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador.
Mexico’s peso currency and stock market have tumbled since the June 2 lopsided victory of the ruling Morena party and its allies in Congress, stoking investor fears lawmakers will use the mandate to pass a series of constitutional reforms, including one of the judicial system. Among other changes, it would allow for the popular election of judges.
In a press conference, Sheinbaum again tried to calm investor nerves, saying the reforms should be better understood by all, and would promote an open forum to discuss them. She asserted they would not jeopardize investments in Mexico.
(Reporting by Anthony Esposito and Lizbeth Diaz; Editing by Brendan O’Boyle)
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